Despite pressure due to the global financial crisis, Greek job market is resilient and dynamic, with strong and healthy resistance to changes in labor relations, Greek Employment and Social Protection Minister Fani Palli-Petralia said on Friday.
She said "We want the ministry to be a shield for the workers, a shield for protection of employment and for reinforcing social cohesion."
The country's labor inspectorate, the Labor Inspection Corps (SEPE), said in a recent report the fact that Greece was resisting the conditions of intense pressure from the global financial crisis was of great significance.
It also said that the "correct political practices" of the ministry, intensification of SEPE inspections and the government's package of measures to boost employment "create a protective shield for the workers in today's difficult conjuncture."
According to the figures released by the SEPE concerning new hiring and types of work contracts per prefecture from February to June, the job market in Greece was gradually normalizing.
Conversion of work contracts from full-time to part-time employment dropped sharply by 54.7 percent, while the conversion of job contracts from full-time to rotation employment declined drastically by 84.74 percent.
The statistics also pointed to a substantial increase in new contracts for full-time employment, from 46,000 in February to more than 70,000 in June.
Source: Xinhua
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